New books from Wharton faculty Image: iStock/hrabar New books from Wharton faculty The latest installments of The Wharton School’s faculty research podcast, “Ripple Effect,” showcases recent books on leadership, customer service, immigration, and the power of data.
How direct cash assistance aids cancer patients from low-income households Image: iStock/Milena Magazin How direct cash assistance aids cancer patients from low-income households A new study by Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice examines the potential of a joint program between Bradley Cooper’s One Family Foundation and the Independence Blue Cross Foundation Institute for Health Equity on health care and economic insecurity.
ICA presents dual new exhibits for summer, fall “Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard.”(Image: Constance Mensh) ICA presents dual new exhibits for summer, fall The Institute of Contemporary Art’s summer and fall exhibitions highlight an eclectic collection of yard art and domestic interiors and scenes that are both familiar and uncomfortable.
Showing up for Penn in London Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson addresses the audience at Penn’s academic symposium in London on Friday, June 21, 2024.(Image: Courtesy of Penn Giving) Showing up for Penn in London A capacity audience attended an academic symposium in London titled “Frontiers of Knowledge and Discovery: Leading in a Changing World.”
Public health beliefs predict support for climate action Image: iStock/humonia Public health beliefs predict support for climate action New research from the Annenberg Public Policy Center examines the relationship between health-related beliefs about climate change and support for climate policy proposals.
Redlining and rentals Aerial view of a Park Forest neighborhood in 1952 that captures the neat rows of homes that characterized the post-World War II housing boom in the planned community.(Image: Owen Kent via the Chicago Historical Society) Redlining and rentals Historian Brent Cebul in the School of Arts & Sciences is working on a new digital mapping project looking at the impact of Federal Housing Administration policies on the availability of affordable rental housing post-World War II.
Protecting against burnout Kandi Wiens is the co-director of the Penn Master’s in Medical Education program.(Image: Robbie Quinn/Penn GSE Magazine) Protecting against burnout Penn GSE’s Kandi Wiens’ latest book aims to help readers build resilience to stress and heal their relationship to work.
Art Matters: Painter Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Forward Together’ nocred Art Matters Art Matters: Painter Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Forward Together’ The powerful print depicts Harriet Tubman, traveling at night and following the North Star, guiding a group of enslaved African Americans on their perilous journey to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Penn pioneers a ‘one-pot platform’ to promptly produce mRNA delivery particles Lipid nanoparticles present one of the most advanced drug delivery platforms to shuttle promising therapeutics such as mRNA but are limited by the time it takes to synthesize cationic lipids, a key component. Now, Michael Mitchell and his team at the School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a faster way to make cationic lipids that are also more versatile, able to carry different kinds of treatments to target specific organs.(Image: iStock / Dr_Microbe) Penn pioneers a ‘one-pot platform’ to promptly produce mRNA delivery particles New lipid platform enables rapid synthesis of molecules that can shuttle therapeutics for a range of diseases with a high degree of organ specificity.
Better survival rates from hospital-based donor care for lung transplants Image: iStock/AlexLMX Better survival rates from hospital-based donor care for lung transplants A new study by Penn researchers has examined, for the first time, the differences in lung transplant graft outcomes from organs recovered from the two types of deceased organ donor care facilities operating in the United States.